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These photos belong to beautifulrecorders.com, a series of CC-licensed, professional photographs of top quality handcrafted recorders freely available to everyone. The author of the photographs is Oscar Romero.
The recorder is a popular instrument today, but today’s vision of it is pretty unfair since it's mainly known as a cheap, bad-sounding, school instrument. Indeed, this (recent) vision is more widely spread today than its historical role and background, which is also quite alive today in the hands of a handful of professional recorder players (just to name a few: Dorothee Oberlinger, Pedro Memelsdorff, Dan Laurin, Maurice Steger, Michael Form, Walter van Hauwe, Kees Boeke and the late Frans Brüggen) and also in the form of fine, handmade, beautiful wooden instruments (see http://beautifulrecorders.com).
An important fact that explains it is that professional recorder world is tiny, making it really hard to compete in terms of visibility with the widespread vision of the recorder as an educational tool (the world is full of children trying to make it sound): Professional players are often good, sometimes strong players, but relatively few people. They can’t compare with the vast amount of, say, professional violin, guitar or piano players. No way!
So, I believe (and many people will agree) the world needs to know what a well, professionally played recorder looks and sounds like. And here comes beautifulrecorders.com.
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Subject: A wonderful exposé!
Subject: A wonderful exposé!
Thank you for the wonderful exposé of these remarkable recorders. A great number of people have no idea what a faithful reproduction, that is created to get as close as possible to recreating the music of the baroque, even looks like. At least here we can appreciate the external beauty of these noble instruments, as replicated by some of the best.
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